Open: 1-year SUMERNET fellowships (Round 2) for young, early-career researchers and practitioners

SUMERNET is offering one-year fellowships for young and early-career (not older than 35 years) Mekong Region citizens with researcher and/or practitioner backgrounds from the countries of Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.

By Oung Kham Oo - Jun 28, 2022

Launch of the Call: 27 June 2022

Application deadline: Saturday, 06 August 2022, 23:59 (Bangkok/Indochina time)

Submissions of proposals will only be accepted through online submission platform:

https://sei.submittable.com/submit/229310/sumernet-call-for-fellowship-applications-2022-23/

Objectives

To strengthen knowledge, capacity and skill of young Mekong citizens and graduate students with interests in research, policy engagement, development practice, communications and media work.
To help deliver credible, gender inclusive, human rights-based, conflict-sensitive, and poverty-reducing research, practice and communications related to addressing environmental sustainability in the Mekong Region.
To strengthen partnership and networking opportunities between their institutions of origin and the SUMERNET Steering Committee, SUMERNET Secretariat and other SUMERNET member institutes. Young professionals or graduate students from member institutes of SUMERNET are encouraged to apply and will be given higher priority for this grant.
To enhance a sense of ownership towards SUMERNET as a regional research network for the early career researchers, development practitioners, communication or media people, or graduate students.

Allowance

The SUMERNET 4 All Fellow will receive a monthly allowance of approximately US$ 750 (SEK 7,500) to cover basic living costs and accommodation while residing in Bangkok, Thailand plus standard/economic level Alternative State Quarantine (ASQ) costs (if required), basic health/travel insurance, and relevant direct costs (return flight and transit accommodations) plus internet/communication costs. For the duration of their fellowship, SEI will arrange a Thailand visa and work permit fees to enable the fellow to legally live and work in Thailand.

Duration

The duration of this grant is 12 months. There is a possibility to extend the fellowship for another term of 6-12 months is dependent on the evaluation of the candidate’s work and with the agreement of all parties concerned (SUMERNET fellow, SUMERNET Steering Committee, SUMERNET Secretariat, and also if relevant, the candidate’s home institution).

Contact

For inquiries, please contact:

Ms. Unchulee Lualon

Programme Coordinator

Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)

Phone: +66 (0)2 0730040-44

Email: unchulee.lualon@sei.org

SUMERNET call for fellowship_Round 2